Out of the North Sea: the Zeeland Ridges Neandertal Export

@article{citeulike:6011808, abstract = {In 2001, a portion of human frontal bone was discovered in sediments extracted from the bottom of the North Sea, 15 km off the coast of the Netherlands. The extraction zone is located in the so-called Zeeland Ridges area located at 51°40′ northern latitude and 3°20′ eastern longitude. The specimen was dredged up from sediments containing Late Pleistocene faunal remains and Middle Palaeolithic artefacts, including well-finished small handaxes and Levallois flakes. The details of the supraorbital morphology, as well as the quantitative assessment of the shape of the external surface of the squama using traditional and 3D geometric morphometrics, unambiguously assign the Zeeland Ridges frontal bone to Homo neanderthalensis . Carbon and nitrogen isotopic analysis indicate that the Zeeland Ridges hominin, like other Neandertals, was highly carnivorous and does not show evidence for the consumption of aquatic foods. A lesion on the outer table and diploic layer of the bone in the area of the supratoral sulcus can be interpreted as the result of an intradiploic epidermoid cyst, a type of neoplasm diagnosed for the first time in Neandertal remains. So far, the Zeeland Ridges Neandertal is the first Pleistocene fossil hominin found under seawater and the first recorded in the Netherlands.}, author = {Hublin, Jean-Jacques and Weston, Darlene and Gunz, Philipp and Richards, Mike and Roebroeks, Wil and Glimmerveen, Jan and Anthonis, Luc}, citeulike-article-id = {6011808}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2009.09.001}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0047248409001560}, day = {23}, doi = {10.1016/j.jhevol.2009.09.001}, issn = {00472484}, journal = {Journal of Human Evolution}, keywords = {200910, europe, mer\_du\_nord, neandertalien, paleolithique-moyen, pleistocene}, month = {October}, posted-at = {2009-10-26 15:18:09}, priority = {2}, title = {Out of the North Sea: the Zeeland Ridges Neandertal}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2009.09.001}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:6011808 L3 - citeulike-article-id:6011808 N2 - In 2001, a portion of human frontal bone was discovered in sediments extracted from the bottom of the North Sea, 15 km off the coast of the Netherlands. The extraction zone is located in the so-called Zeeland Ridges area located at 51°40′ northern latitude and 3°20′ eastern longitude. The specimen was dredged up from sediments containing Late Pleistocene faunal remains and Middle Palaeolithic artefacts, including well-finished small handaxes and Levallois flakes. The details of the supraorbital morphology, as well as the quantitative assessment of the shape of the external surface of the squama using traditional and 3D geometric morphometrics, unambiguously assign the Zeeland Ridges frontal bone to Homo neanderthalensis . Carbon and nitrogen isotopic analysis indicate that the Zeeland Ridges hominin, like other Neandertals, was highly carnivorous and does not show evidence for the consumption of aquatic foods. A lesion on the outer table and diploic layer of the bone in the area of the supratoral sulcus can be interpreted as the result of an intradiploic epidermoid cyst, a type of neoplasm diagnosed for the first time in Neandertal remains. So far, the Zeeland Ridges Neandertal is the first Pleistocene fossil hominin found under seawater and the first recorded in the Netherlands. JF - Journal of Human Evolution SN - 00472484 TI - Out of the North Sea: the Zeeland Ridges Neandertal KW - 200910 KW - europe KW - mer_du_nord KW - neandertalien KW - paleolithique-moyen KW - pleistocene AU - Hublin, Jean-Jacques AU - Weston, Darlene AU - Gunz, Philipp AU - Richards, Mike AU - Roebroeks, Wil AU - Glimmerveen, Jan AU - Anthonis, Luc PY - 2009/10/23/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2009.09.001 ER -